Fastener for neckties.



my. 627,566. Patented June 27, I899. H. ZIEGLER.

FASTENER FOR NECKTIES.

(Application filed Jan. 31, 1899.

(No Model.)

WITNESSES INVENTOR I UNITED STArEsi P T NT OFFICE.

HANS ZIEGLER, OF REUTLINGEN, GERMANY.

FASTEN ER FOR NECKTIES.

SPECEIIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 627,566, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed January 31, 1899. Serial No. 704,020. (No model.)

My invention relates to a fastener for neckties in'combination with a collar-stud.

Various necktie-holders are made and sold but they are useless becausesome of them are provided with a pointed catch,which pricks holes through and spoils the necktie, and others, without a catch, allowthe necktie to slip unless it is pressed into the holder very tight. These disadvantages are removed by my invention. T

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a View of the fastener closed and provided with spiral springs; Fig. 2, a crosssection through Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a view of a modification of the fastener with closed lid and provided with flat springs, the dotted lines showing the lid open. Fig. t is a front view of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, an inside view of the lid; Fig. 6, a top viewof the fastener with the lid removed, and Fig. 7 shows howthe fastener is used.

For fastening the device to the collar, for instance, a shank a with double-hinged shoes is used. To this a U-shaped frame 'u, is attached, which at the top of its bent-up ends is provided with a hinge b atone side and with a projection c at the other, both of which serve to fix the lid 0. One end of the lid o has the hinge b. The other end has the shape of a hook in order to be able to catch behind the projection or rim 0 of the frame uh At this hooked end of the lid 0 a finger or nose q and a hole p are provided, through which latter, p, the lengthened end (1 of the frame '00 can 'pass. The parts d and q serve for raising the lid by pressing the finger-nail between them, which disengages the said frame projection from the hook.

Inside the upright sides narrow guides f are arranged forthe purpose of guiding and fixing the moving ofa plate m. The surface of the plate mis riffled. Its sides at are bent upward, so that the lid 0, which is also riffled -inside, can place itself between these side walls at, Fig. 2. These bent-up walls at of the slidable plate m, which laterally confine the lid 0, secure a firm hold of. the tie and at the same time improve its appearance, as they cause the tie to fall in folds, which is not the case with any of the existing fasteners. The movable plate m can be moved up and down in the frame-like guides f of the side walls. This plate m is always pressed [upward bythe springs s in Fig. 1 or s in Fig. -3,' located between the bases of the frame a and the slidable plate m. This slidable plate m catches, when pressed upward by the springs, with its ends under the upper benttogether ends of the guides f, and itis pressed down when the necktie is put in and pressed down by the lid 0.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a fastener for neckties the combinatio of a U-shaped frame u, having a shank and hinged shoes, guides f inside the U-shaped part'u of the frame, provided with hinge b at one end and projection c at the other end and the riffled lid 0 movable on the hinge b, and having a catch projection c; with a plate m slidable in said frame in guides f, said plate riflled on its inner surface and provided with lateral bent-up wallsn and springs arranged between the base ,of the frame and the slidable plate, substantially as described andfor the purpose set forth.

' HANS 'ZIEGLER.

Witnesses:

O. KoHLER, Y L. HANSER. 

